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second lieutenant. she will join us along with her mother who is a brigadier general who witnessed that explosion. they will share their memories 20 years later. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden s message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. biden saying, quote, have it. the president s new policies will affect about two-thirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. for context, 75% of u.s. adults already have at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27% of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic ....
anniversary of 9/11 attacks. politically and many ways culturally at least for a time united most of our country. our government leaders used or in some cases took advantage of that unity. that s another story. and certainly up for plenty of debate. still, we were a united states amid the depths of that crisis and right now we re anything but united when it comes to the current crisis of covid-19. as death toll far surpasses anything we saw on 9/11. 660,000 americans. in fact, according to our numbers today in first read of deaths just in the last report in the last 24 hours, this is not part of the seven-day average, but we had 3,200 over the last 24 hours. you know any time you see a 3 on a daily death toll in the thousands you think of 9/11, as well. put things in perspective. we re now seeing a 9/11 size death toll basically at least every two days and it s actually more than that now. and the conservative blowblack to president biden s sweeping new covid mandates t ....
itself is running out of control with the delta variant. the president has chosen to stay on that topic for now. tomorrow he is expected to lay out some new steps to battle the pandemic. that won t be easy. it was two months ago when the administration already declared independence from the virus. critics like senator tom cotton suggesting this is part of a broader p.r. campaign to shift focus away from afghanistan and those americans we left behind. i understand the administration wants to turn the page. they want this out of the news. they want to focus on their reckless 3 1/2 trillion dollar spending bill. there are a lot of members of congress who won t rest until every american and every legal permanent resident in afghanistan can get out of afghanistan. harris: the washington examiner is noting this. the commander-in-chief promises to pivot away from afghanistan and the new york post with this headline. his media guards are ready to help him change the sub ....
the other would likely follow soon thereafter. i m amara walker in atlanta in for pamela brown. you are in the cnn newsroom. one full week after hurricane ida slammed louisiana and the death toll is still climbing. the details are horrifying. in louisiana, more than 600,000 homes and businesses are still without power. and the merciless heat proved fatal for an elderly man in new orleans. it could take several more weeks to restore power to everyone in the state. in new york, heroism and heartbreak from ida s deadly visit there. this is a new york police officer wading into chest deep waters wednesday to investigate reports of people inside the flooded basement of a home with stuffed animals and toys bobbing in the filthy, murky water. the officers were blocked by locked doors and live electricity. firefighters brought in specialized equipment and discovered the bodies of three people, all of whom had drowned. let s begin with polo sandoval in new york. video releas ....
. pete: welcome to fox & friends on this labor weekend. lawrence jones is hanging out with us. thank you, pete. we ll let him off the hook with cornhole. we ll do a little later. will: if you were not watching yesterday, lawrence had incredibly embarrassing moment on fox & friends. that was it. lawrence: can we show the footage. will: a responsibility has been laid down. lawrence: it was a no-look pass. we had to go to commercial. this is the real competition. watch this, this is how i really do it. it went in, second try. you missed it i was celebrating right there. rachel: what will insisted with the producers get the one you missed in slow motion. he wanted the moment to celebrate you and. will: i don t think i had to humiliate him. he was doing that himself. lawrence: i was on the ground doing my job, a fellow texan embarrassed me. rachel: you know your friend on the show. will: speaking of embarrassing, president joe biden is taking the weekend off. he is he ....